Joan Swirsky
Saturday, Jan. 31, 2004

But in the presence of a dictator-free Iraq, a world with significantly fewer al-Qaeda terrorists, a country – our own – in which homeland security grows stronger every day and boasts an economy that by any measure is in full recovery, all the WMD can do is, well, deceive.

"The president lied!" the WMD squawked for months, studiously avoiding the fact that Iraq's annihilating weapons (for instance, the nerve gas that Saddam Hussein inflicted on his own population of Kurds) posed a threat to other countries in the Middle East as well as to the U.S.

But as inspectors failed to find the biological and nuclear weapons that our own intelligence community, the United Nations, the Clinton administration and various intelligence committees in the U.S. Congress (on which some of the Democratic candidates for president sit) agreed were dire threats to world peace, the WMD – instead of being relieved or alarmed that the weapons had been transferred to other countries in the region – were downright jubilant at the prospect of catching the commander in chief in a calculated twisting of the truth.

In an orgy of self-congratulatory "Gotchas!" they pretended to be outraged that the very intelligence they, themselves, relied on was misinterpreted only by the president.

Sen. John Kerry, for instance, knew that the president didn't "lie," anymore than he did when he voted to send our troops to Iraq. His cynical, politically motivated flip-flop and subsequent failure to vote for the $87 million appropriation to support the same troops in their ongoing battle to combat terrorist insurgency and ultimately wage peace should disqualify him from even running for the presidency!

Now top U.S. weapons inspector David Kay has reported that "we were almost all wrong" in assessing Iraq's weapons programs but that, indeed, Iraq repeatedly violated U.N. resolutions and that his team had found "hundreds of cases, based on both documents, physical evidence and the testimony of Iraqis, of activities that were prohibited. ..."

"We've alienated our friends around the world!" the WMD screeched, referring of course to that bastion of America-bashing, the U.N., and countries like France and Germany and Russia that we now know had billions of dollars of investments in Iraq and so were driven by craven greed to appease the Iraqi dictator.

As usual, the WMD were wrong, as dozens of countries – "the coalition of the willing" – joined President Bush in his unswerving resolve to destroy the terrorist regimes that are still hell-bent on destroying us.

"Tax cuts for the rich!" the WMD railed as the economy sputtered along during the first months of the Bush administration. Never mind that the cuts benefited untold millions of distinctly non-rich Americans, that the economy is now on an upward trajectory and that manufacturing and housing starts are up and joblessness is going down, down, down.

So now the WMD, jetting to South Carolina and Missouri and Oklahoma et al., will continue to tell potential voters everything that's wrong with America – without, significantly, offering even one creative suggestion for fixing what they continue to insist is broken.

In the absence of ideas, about the only thing the WMD have on their side is their ongoing, obsessive, objectively irrational hatred of George Bush in particular and of conservatives in general.

This is understandable, given that no one, including Democrats like the current crop of wannabes, likes to be deposed from power or relegated to the middle or back burners in terms of being taken seriously.

The Bush administration has effectively done this in re-establishing the United States as an ideological and military power that will never compromise with terrorists, in insisting on accountability in our schools, in launching the most generous AIDS initiative in history in Africa, and in making great inroads in revamping the Medicare system ... the list goes on and on.

No wonder the WMD are fuming!

But let's not forget that anger is among the most powerful, energizing and motivating emotions. It's not the impoverishment of ideas that makes the WMD so scary. It's their rage.

Joan Swirsky is a New-York-based journalist and author who can be reached at joansharon@aol.com

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